I just quit Facebook because they abuse users

[L. Coyote]

Facebook has changed again,

1) taking over control of what is important to you

2) employing profile pictures to advertise Wal*Mart and other things people have liked.

I don't want a corporation using the different "Likes" I make to run ads for clients.
My friends and I did not join or use Facebook to become unwitting stooges for corporatism!

Deactivate your account now and give em hell!

[ixion]

1. the changes are incredibly annoying.

to say the least. I'm just about done with face-ad.

[L. Coyote]

2. Face-ad! LOL. If you Like Mall*Wart, your face can be a corporate model too!

Also, if you quit Facebook, you have to figure out what to do with half of your day :rofl:

[PassingFair]

3. Should make all of us appreciate the egalitarian entity, Google.

Who is driving the capitalists CRAZY by preserving
its pure search and relevant results format and
not "monetizing" itself out of relevancy.

Fuck Facebook, and Fuck BING while I'm at it.

[hobbit709]

4. So unlike Walmart.

[L. Coyote]

35. I never have Liked Mall*Wart, but a Friend did, and now her photo is repeatedly on top the list

of "recent" posts, placed there as an ad and out of the actual chronology of posts.
She does not even know that her photo was a Wal*Mart ad in my Facebook view.
She just likes the price of cookies, or something, and did not sign with Wal*Mart to be a spokesperson.

[Bunny]

5. I'm thinking about cancelling my account, too.

It's disgusting.

[bowens43]

6. or you could just turn these 'features' off...

takes about 30 seconds

[L. Coyote]

8. Actually, you cannot control this format change yourself.

[Bunny]

12. No, you can't.

[L. Coyote]

42. My page reverted briefly, and I had a chance to label a Wal*Mart ad offensive to me.

That kind of mechanism is useful for content algorithms.
Using Friend profile photos for ads is not cool.

[Eddie Haskell]

7. Yesterday I got an email claiming I had Facebook "notifications"

So I clicked on their link. Apparently, my notification was Facebook notifying me that I had no notifications. Who needs this shit?

[L. Coyote]

9. I just got this one regarding my complaint

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback. We’re constantly trying to improve Facebook, so it's important that we hear from our users. Unfortunately, we can’t respond to your emails individually, but we are reading them. We appreciate you taking the time to write to us. If there are any specific changes you recommend, please let us know.

If you are having any problems with your account, please refer back to our Help page (http://www.facebook.com/help.php) where you'll find information about Facebook as well as the answers to many of your questions.

Thanks again for your feedback.

-The Facebook Team

[Eddie Haskell]

11. The real message

Unfortunately, we can’t respond to your emails individually, we're too busy making money.

[HockeyMom]

10. My Facebook still looks the same

I never clicked on the updates, or opened that email that was sent. I only open the emails that say somebody replied to a post I made. I have also never posted any pictures.

I have always been very wary of "updates", for anything.

[Bunny]

13. Neither did I.

When I went to bed last night: old Facebook. When I woke up this morning: new Facebook. I didn't touch a thing.

[RadiationTherapy]

15. It's not like that. It is their website and so layout changes do not require an update

or installation like software on your machine might.

[RadiationTherapy]

14. Facebook is not here to facilitate communication. It is a marketing data harvester.

Any and all changes are to the end of getting you to interact more so you, and your demographic, may be better understood.

[backscatter712]

20. Exactly. You are not Facebook's customer. You are their product. n/t

[L. Coyote]

54. More like "Their Carnival and we are the Marks" is my complaint.

Nothing wrong with an Amusement Park if it is NOT rigged to abuse the visitors.

[NorthCarolina]

16. Cancelled mine over a year ago and glad I did. nt

[aikoaiko]

17. Ok, but when I clicked on your post there was an ad for FOXNews next to your post.

Advertising is the price we pay for free or reduced rate services.

I like facebook in general -- except the constant changes are annoying.

I won't be deactivating because of their advertising business model.

[BadgerKid]

18. I think there's a privacy setting for disabling Likes adverts. n/t

[Jim Warren]

19. What is this face book you speak of?

I like a good book!

[SpiralHawk]

21. FaceFlix & NetBook - Ptoooey,

Both of them have this month chosen the Path of Republicon SuckiTude.

Riding slimey roughshod over the peeps who made them rich.

[KatyMan]

22. Just deactivated my account the other day

I got tired of the RWers in the various family and friends I had; FB was starting to look like a newspaper message board with all the christians praying and right wingers poutraging...

[pipi_k]

23. The changes do stink, but

I still like FB in general too (as someone else posted above me).

Keeping up with friends and family is easy and convenient. It's all in one place.


And "giving them hell" by deactivating my account isn't going to hurt them one bit. There will always be new people joining up who have never known the way it used to be, so the new format won't be annoying to them.


Not to mention that the only connection I have left with my brother who passed away in Feb. is his facebook page, which I requested be memorialized. I'm not going to give that up by quitting facebook.

[ChiciB1]

24. Tried It a Couple Of Times... A WHILE Ago... NEVER DID LIKE IT! n/t

[itsallhappening]

25. Your post is advertising JIF peanut butter and FOX News.

[MineralMan]

28. Not for me, it's not.

Like Facebook, DU works the way it's owners choose to make it work. On DU, if you contribute money to keep the site running, you don't have to see those ads. That's how DU works. Facebook works the way it's designed, too. Much of it, you can control. What you cannot control, you either ignore or enjoy or you leave the site.

Every site that is interactive is a business of some kind. Patronize it or don't patronize it. Work with its structure or go somewhere else. You can also complain about features that bother you, but you can't control the decisions the owners make.

:shrug:

[itsallhappening]

30. I'm not complaining about the FOX and JIF ads.

I'm just pointing out what you just pointed out.

[MineralMan]

32. Right. I'm not really saying anything about you here. I'm talking

about how sites work and the futility of complaining about how they work. I'm on your side.

[MineralMan]

26. I never "like" anything having to do with a corporation.

Facebook is what you make it. If you "like" stuff, you've agreed to let Facebook and the "stuff" to use that information. Read things. See what you're doing.

Facebook is what it is. It is not yours. It belongs to a company. If you understand how it works, you can control it to give you what you want. If you ignore how it works, you will get the results Facebook wants. It's very simple.

If you don't like Facebook, you can leave Facebook. Thus it is in the real world. I don't like where the gasoline filler door is on one of my cars. It is what it is.

[itsallhappening]

27. You don't "like" bands or movies on FB?

[MineralMan]

31. No. Why would I do that?

If I like a band, I buy its music. If I like a movie, I tell my friends. What does "liking" something on Facebook do for me? I'm on Facebook to keep in touch with friends and associates. That's the only reason I'm there. "Liking" stuff on Facebook isn't one of my deals. I can't see how it improves my life in any way.

If you "like" stuff on Facebook, that's your deal. I don't care. But Facebook is designed to make money by publicizing what you like. If you want to contribute in that way to Facebook, be my guest. Since you're not on my friends list there, it has no effect whatsoever on me. If a Facebook "friend" of mine starts "liking" everything, they soon get hidden.

[itsallhappening]

33. Just wondering. A lot of people like to shake their fists in the air and rage about corporations

yet they support (in one way or another) bands and movies they love, as if the music and movie industries are small indie outfits or something, when they're nothing of the sort.

It's especially funny watching people like Michael Stipe of REM, or Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam whine about "corporatism." LOL

[AsahinaKimi]

29. I quit them along time ago.. mostly because

They accidentally divulged private information on everyone's account though some glitch they had. That was enough for me to say, SAYONARA to FB.

[X_Digger]

34. If you don't like their new 'top stories' feature, here's how to get around it.

And yes, I said 'get around' it because there's no way to disable it.

Create a custom list, add those of your friends and pages that you haven't hidden from your news feed, and go to the options under 'Manage List' -> 'Updates to Show' and check all items. Does away with this 'top story' business.

[City Lights]

36. Do you know a work-around for their new annoying "ticker?"

I can't stand to see it scrolling out of the corner of my eye.

[X_Digger]

47. I haven't had that turned on for me, yet, no.

If I find a solution, I'll update this message or reply to it.

[City Lights]

49. Thanks, I appreciate it! eom

[blogslut]

37. I'm having luck with the Firefox addon, Stylish + the Change Facebook Back style

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

http://userstyles.org/styles/53873/change-facebook-back-2011

[My Good Babushka]

38. Meh, I didn't even think the changes were that noticeable

I'm willing to work around a lot of things because it's been a great, free, promotional site for my small business. It is what you make of it.

[starroute]

48. I mainly had trouble with the "top stories"

Because, yeah, it's way more important to see someone commenting on what the weather was like two days ago than to find out what my friends are up to right now.

Just installed "Stylish" as recommended about and it seems to do the trick.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

39. yeah...

http://www.someecards.com/usercards/viewcard/d5a23e57b2500174fde710799bb2aec7

[L. Coyote]

44. ... not to mention the 365 page legal agreement I consented to without reading ...

because that would inconvenience me :rofl:

Point is, we have two votes in this system, our feet!

[Warren DeMontague]

40. I know. I'm going to stop giving them my money, dammit!

Oh, wait, it's free.

BASTARDS!!!

[HuckleB]

41. Oh, hogwash.

[Atman]

43. Un-rec for more useless Facebook whining

If you up your info to them, don't be surprised if they use it in exactly the way their TOS says they're going to use it. If you post your phone number, your address, your e-mail, you're just plain stupid. It's a NETWORKING site. Look up what "networking" means. I don't begrudge anyone for "leaving" FB (but again, check the TOS...you can't actually leave right away), but to complain that you're being abused by something you voluntarily signed up for is just silly. OnStar's announcement today, that it will track your speed and location, and then sell the information, even if you don't use the OnStar service, is far more insidious. At least once you are finally allowed to leave FB, you're actually done with them.

.

[DrunkenBoat]

45. The modern business model = people doing for free what they used to get paid for.

Like being unpaid spokesmodels.

They don't even have to ask your permission.

[L. Coyote]

51. plus, you supply your own photos and the ad CONsumers.

[shanti]

46. closed my fb account several months ago

and won't be going back.

[bemildred]

50. Facebook is a money-making fad.

It offers nothing you cannot easily do in many other ways and places.

[Arugula Latte]

53. I don't know about that.

Where else can I easily see what my friend from when I was five and my ex-co-worker and my kid's friend's mom are up to, all at a glance? It helps me integrate all parts of my life in a weirdly cohesive way.

[sfpcjock]

52. Yeah the massive ajax code runs a little slower on this old box but...

facebook just tried to implement a standard blog "bump structure" (like this one) and get rid of the annoying trivial events. It's not bad. You should give it another try sometime.

[Codeine]

55. #firstworldproblems nt

[Dragonbreathp9d]

56. Meh, there are much bigger fish to fry

The real problem is that people actually "like" walmart